Albany Med gets wired

Albany Medical Center is among a group of 25 health care organizations named “Most Improved” in information systems technology, according to the American Hospital Association’s 2007 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study.

The study appears in a recent issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, a journal of the AHA. The issue also contained a list of the 100 “Most Wired” hospitals and health systems.

The Most Wired Survey focuses on how the nation’s hospitals use information technologies for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and work force issues. While not on the most wired list, Albany Med was cited among 25 organizations whose score improved the most from 2004 to 2005.

To date, Albany Medical Center has deployed several clinical systems that allow clinicians to receive and access data from many sources and use that data for clinical and financial decision-making. More improvements are also in the making, officials said.